Improvement in milking-stools



G SMITH. MILKING STOOL.

N0. 109,847. Patented-D6015; 1870.

hated new eno'nen'snrtrn, or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

Letters-Patent No. 109,247, dated December 6,1870.

IMPROVEMENT. IN MILKING-STOOLS.

The Sghedule referred to in than Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

be clamped and held.

Figure 2 is a bottom view .of the stool without the bucket.

Figure 3 is a section, taken vertically and longitudinally through the stool.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. v

The object of my invention is to combine with a stool an adjustable pail or bucket-holder, in such manner that the lat-terwill be clamped and firmly held by the action of the weight of the milker upon a movable seat-and clamp-hoop, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled inthe art to understand my invention, I will explain its construction and operation.

1n the accompanying drawing- 1 y A represents the horizontal top of a stool, which is mounted on'legs A, and which has one end curved out, as shown at m, for receiving against it a bucket, and conforming to the shape thereof.

0 represents a clamp-hoop, which extends out beyond the curved end r of the stool-top A, and which is intended to clamp theb'ucket D against said curved end r, as shown in fig. 1.

The straight portions 0 c' of the clamp O are guided by staples j j, and connected together by a cross-bar, g. The clamp thus arranged beneath the stool-top will slide longitudinally.

B represents the seat for the milk'er, which is secured permanently to an extension, I), of a cam, b, which cam is pivoted, at s, in an oblong slot, a.

To'the' convex surface of the cam 71 a strap, e, is se curely fastened, which strap is connected to a-st-rong spring, f, the front end of which is connected to the cross-bar y of the sliding clamp O.

Between this bar 9 and the front end of the stooltopA is a spring, h,-which is attached to bar g at one end and to the stool-top at the other end.

The parts are so adjusted that the seat B will assume about the inclined position shown in figs.- 1 am 2 when the milker is not sitting upon it. This is eflccted by the retraction of spring 71.. This spring is intended to more the clamp O outwardly, andrelease the bucket when the weight is removed from the seat B to rest firmly down upon; the top of the stool, whatever may be the diameter of the pail which is confined within the clamp.

From the above description it will be seen that I provide a stool with a-bucket-clamp, and effect the clamping and holding of a' bucket by the weight of the milker'sitting upon the seat B, acting upon said clamp through the medium of a strong spring, f. This spring will yield, and allow the clamp to accommodate itself to buckets of diiferent diameters; at the same time it will allow the vibrating seat B to rest solidly down upon the stool-top. When the milker rises from the seat B the spring It causes the latter to rise, as

shown in fig. 3, and at the same time causes clamp C to release the bucket.

The seat B, arranged as described, also serves to I hold the tail of the animal during milking, which is done by drawing the bushy part of the tail between the seat B and table-top before depressing the seat.

, Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The sliding clamp 0, connected to an extension,

Wummnu .0. BRADLEY. SAMUEL Mrnns. 

